India, May 30 -- Jammu and Kashmir Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and MLA Mehraj Malik has been booked on charges of defamation, criminal intimidation, and insulting the modesty of a woman doctor in Doda district.

The FIR was registered on the complaint of an associate professor at a medical college on Thursday in which she alleged that the MLA took to social media to publicly issue threats and pass abusive, gendered and derogatory remarks against her.

The case was registered under Sections 356 (2)(defamation, including that of deceased), 351 (2) (criminal intimidation) and 79 (actions intended to insult a woman's modesty). This includes uttering words, making gestures or exhibiting objects, or intruding on a woman's privacy with the inten...